26.06.25
Dear Grif-friend,
Welcome to your fortnightly Griff-newsletter, I hope you’re holding effectively, staying heat and navigating this Katy Perry climate we’re having… get it? Because it’s Hot n Cold.
2025… Blink and also you’ll miss it! I don’t imply to alarm you, but it surely’s virtually the tip of June. In the Downstairs Theatre at Belvoir St Theatre, we’re counting down Koreaboo performances (tonight is present 11 of 36), on the Old Fitz Theatre we’re counting down the minutes till tonight’s first preview of SISTREN and at Griffin HQ we’re counting down the ultimate days of this monetary yr. Some may even say the times are going, going, gone.
While I’m fortunate sufficient to work year-round with our fantastic donor and companion household, May/June actually is when the rubber hits the highway. Alongside my colleague Harry Lyddiard, our Relationship Manager, we’ve got the pleasure of calling and chatting with everybody who has made a donation to our finish of economic yr (EOFY) marketing campaign. We get to speak with our nearest and dearest about what first drew them to Griffin—their love for brand new Australian tales, their most up-to-date go to, a fast replace on how the redevelopment’s going, or simply to say a real thanks. It’s at all times a pleasant reminder of why this place issues a lot to so many. This is only a small gesture of our appreciation, and hopefully it makes everybody who has dug deep really feel that little bit nearer to the corporate—and the theatre—that they love.
It actually is probably the most fantastic (generally nerve-racking) time of the yr and we’re so grateful for each single donor and each single greenback that helps us do extra on and off the Griffin stage.
Philanthropy does much more behind the scenes than it’s possible you’ll realise. Government assist earned earnings and ticket income does lots of the heavy lifting, but it surely’s our donor neighborhood that helps a lot of what goes on effectively earlier than the rehearsal interval. Whether that’s by artistic applications that develop our work like Griffin Studio, Studio Workshop and the Redraft Fund, or open entry writing applications like Griffin Award and Suzie Miller Award and Griffin Ambassadors (which for those who’re a yr 10, 11, 12 scholar, you’ll be able to nonetheless sign-up and see a present this weekend—free of charge! Apply now). These applications—and plenty of extra—are funded by extremely beneficiant people and foundations so we are able to inform tales, enrich lives and create extra alternatives for artists to develop and stage excellent new Australian performs.
Many of our donors begin as viewers members, pals of the corporate or just love what we do and make the choice to step up. So, if Griffin has made an affect on you and also you’d like to affix our donor neighborhood, please make a donation on-line or give us a name. If you’re nonetheless uncertain and need to know extra about how your assist may make a distinction, we’d love to listen to from you.
Thank you for studying, subscribing, donating and all the things in between. We do that for you, and we are able to’t do it with out you.
See you in a lobby (choose one, we’ve got two on the go proper now!) very quickly,
Jake
Jake Shavikin
Head of Development